Endingidi

The endingidi has one string, extending from the neck to a cylindrical sound-box or resonator made of wood or cow horn.

A piece of hide is stretched over the top of the cylinder and is fixed to the sound-box with wooden pegs, thorny spines or nowadays also with metal nails.

The neck consists of a straight wooden stick inserted through the walls of the sound-box at about 2 to 3 cm from the top.

At the top of the neck a hole is bored at 4 to 6 cm from the end into which a tuning pin is inserted vertically.

This is coupled with the Bigwala also invented by the Basoga [1], [2] The endingidi player sings or rather rhythmically speaks as he plays.

Among the Basoga people of Busoga Kingdom, the endingidi was usually played solo, but nowadays it is increasingly combined with the engoma(drum) and rattles.